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A Palm Beach County man will stay in jail while he fights extradition to Thailand on criminal charges he kidnapped a wealthy U.S. businessman there and tried to collect a $2 million ransom, a federal judge ruled. Shawn Abraham Shaw, 43, of Palm Beach, is a serious flight risk and has not proved any "special circumstances" exist that would justify setting him free, U.S. Magistrate Judge William Matthewman ruled Friday. The alleged victim, who divides his time between Las Vegas and Phuket, told authorities in Thailand that Shaw secretly drugged him at a bar in December 2013, kidnapped him, kept him bound and chained for several hours overnight and negotiated the ransom, which was...

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A Palm Beach County man will stay in jail while he fights extradition to Thailand on criminal charges he kidnapped a wealthy U.S. businessman there and tried to collect a $2 million ransom, a federal judge ruled.Shawn Abraham Shaw, 43, of Palm Beach, is a...

A Taiwanese commercial flight with 53 passengers aboard clipped a bridge shortly after takeoff and crashed into a river in Taipei on Wednesday.
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Jews in India have more freedom and few if any cases of discrimination than anywhere else in the world, according to Rabbi Romiel Daniel, the scholar in residence from Feb. 6-7 at Temple Beth El in Hollywood.
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Shawn Abraham Shaw is an international fugitive who hid out in South Florida after kidnapping a wealthy buinessman in Thailand and negotiating a $2 million ransom — at least according to Thai authorities and U.S. government officials who want him...

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Students at Cypress Bay High school in Weston don't have to go very far to immerse themselves in Chinese culture.
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More than 100 children — all less than 15 years old — were killed in Pakistan on Tuesday in one of the worst attacks on a school in human history.
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